Need Help With Contributions

[Sjoukje]

Hello,

 

I am a complete newbie to oscommerce and php. I have made a webshop for download, which works fine as long as you pay by creditcard, but if you pay by PayPal suddenly things don't work anymore.

I have tried several things to make this good, but it just doesn't work. I suppose I need to add a contribution, either Downloads controller or a PayPal contribution. I have tried to install Downloads Controller, read the readme file, read several forum-items (actually all I could find on this topic) and I just don't get it. I don't have a clue how to install contributions (it just doesn't want to go into my mind).

 

I feel so stupid for asking, but can someone please help me from scratch, one step at a time, to get this done. Once I understand I think I can do the rest myself, but I am really clueless now. The readme file and all the instructions I found just seem like a foreign language to me...

(I have a lot of experience with websites, but my mind just seems to block as soon as it is about the oscommerce contributions).

 

Please help me out... Starting to get really frustrated (Maybe by PM would be better?)

Sjoukje

[djmonkey1]

Well, if you have a lot of experience with websites, it shouldn't be too hard to get your head around osCommerce. Any website, at it's base, is a bunch of files, and an osCommerce site is no different.

 

The biggest thing to come to terms with as far as osCommerce goes, I would think, is the file structure. The file structure of osCommerce is far more complicated than a simple HTML site, for instance, and so when you're first starting out it can be daunting. Just remember it's just a website!

 

All a contribution does is change some of the files in your website. Thinking of it along the lines of an HTML site, adding a contribution would be like adding a new HTML page or pages, or changing the content of one or more of the pages, or some combination thereof. You're making some sort of change to the site, changing the way it functions, looks, etc.

[satish]

paypal IPN latest version by oscommerce team plus download controller should do.

 

Satish

[Sjoukje]

Thanks for your response.

I am very sure of course you need to upload the contribution to the server (I guess by ftp of course), but for instance should I overwrite other files? It doesn't say that in the readme-file of downloads controller, but I guess somehow oscommerce and Downloads controller should be melted together, so I think I do need to overwrite files?

Downloads controller has a folder called "admin", in oscommerce I have a folder called "iadmin", should I overwrite iadmin by the "admin"of Downloads controller?

 

Sjoukje

[Guest]

Thanks for your response.

I am very sure of course you need to upload the contribution to the server (I guess by ftp of course), but for instance should I overwrite other files? It doesn't say that in the readme-file of downloads controller, but I guess somehow oscommerce and Downloads controller should be melted together, so I think I do need to overwrite files?

Downloads controller has a folder called "admin", in oscommerce I have a folder called "iadmin", should I overwrite iadmin by the "admin"of Downloads controller?

 

Sjoukje

Have not installed downloads controller myself. As a rule, any new file can be copied (ftped) directly into its correct location. Existing files need to be merged if you have other contribs installed. I use a pure text editor to do this.

As for iadmin, if that is your admin directory it is not standard install, but you would treat that as your admin directory an copy the new admin files to it. Existing files need to be merged if you have other contribs installed.

[djmonkey1]

Thanks for your response.

I am very sure of course you need to upload the contribution to the server (I guess by ftp of course), but for instance should I overwrite other files? It doesn't say that in the readme-file of downloads controller, but I guess somehow oscommerce and Downloads controller should be melted together, so I think I do need to overwrite files?

Downloads controller has a folder called "admin", in oscommerce I have a folder called "iadmin", should I overwrite iadmin by the "admin"of Downloads controller?

 

Sjoukje

 

NO- overwriting whole folders is a VERY bad idea.

 

For every file contained within a contribution there is either a matching file within the osCommerce structure or it is a totally new file.

 

Totally new files can be uploaded to the server into the appropriate folder.

 

For files that have the same name as in your osCommerce site, these files need to be merged (make sure you're working in the same folder when merging files. For instance you wouldn't want to merge your catalog/includes/classes/order.php file with the contributions version of the admin/includes/classes/order.php file).

[Sjoukje]

Thanks, done that now (for downloads controller)

But I still don't see any changes in the admin...

 

In the readme file it says this:

 

"Add the new configuration settings with the downloads_controller.sql file. This will add the new settings for the Admin.

 

Add a new Order Status, I call mine Updated and check its value in the orders_status table. Then set the value in the Admin for:

 

Downloads Controller Update Status Value

 

to this new value. Usually this is a 4, but could be different depending on how many orders_status settings you have."

 

 

In downloads_controller.sql I find a lot of places where I can type in new settings (I think), but how do I know what settings to add? Or are the settings that were in the file (right out of the package I downloaded) already good enough?

 

Again thanks so much...

 

Sjoukje

[djmonkey1]

Thanks, done that now (for downloads controller)

But I still don't see any changes in the admin...

 

In the readme file it says this:

 

"Add the new configuration settings with the downloads_controller.sql file. This will add the new settings for the Admin.

 

Add a new Order Status, I call mine Updated and check its value in the orders_status table. Then set the value in the Admin for:

 

Downloads Controller Update Status Value

 

to this new value. Usually this is a 4, but could be different depending on how many orders_status settings you have."

 

 

In downloads_controller.sql I find a lot of places where I can type in new settings (I think), but how do I know what settings to add? Or are the settings that were in the file (right out of the package I downloaded) already good enough?

 

Again thanks so much...

 

Sjoukje

 

You've gotten to the other side of things- the database. downloads_controller.sql is a set of commands you have to run against the database- you should not edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing.

 

Do you have a way to access your database?

[Sjoukje]

Not that I know of... no...

[djmonkey1]

Not that I know of... no...

How did you install osCommerce?

[Sjoukje]

I uploaded it (by ftp). In Downloads controller there was a folder called "catelog". I did not have a folder "catelog" yet, so I uploaded the folder just as it was.

But it seems to me that I should have a folder called catalog..?!

 

Sjoukje

[bkellum]

I uploaded it (by ftp). In Downloads controller there was a folder called "catelog". I did not have a folder "catelog" yet, so I uploaded the folder just as it was.

But it seems to me that I should have a folder called catalog..?!

 

Sjoukje

Most contribution install instructions refer to the "catalog" folder of your store, as it is in standard osCommerce 2.2MS2. If you have changed the name of this folder, to "store" or "shop" for example, use this name instead of "catalog" when you read the instructions. In any case, the folder structure in the contribution package should follow the structure of osCommerce, so you should be able to see where the files need to be copied.

 

For example: http://yourdomain.com/catalog/ where "catalog" is the name of the folder where all of your osc catalog files are stored. It may be http://yourdomain.com/shop or http://yourdomain.com/store.

If you have osC installed in the root of your domain, then your store link would look like this:

http://yourdomain.com and you would not have a catalog folder. In this case you would just upload the contribution files into your root directory following the same folder structure of the contribution. :thumbsup:

 

Hope this helped,

[Sjoukje]

OK, I don't have a separate folder called anything like the things you said. The folders and the files inside the "catalog" folder of Downloads controller are all found in "iadmin", so it looks like what are the 2 separate folders "admin" and "catalog" at Downloads controller, are one folder on my server "Iadmin". (btw. I haven't changed this, I downloaded it this way by my server and the webshop does work... now I see why I didn't understand installing contributions).

 

I have put the files of downloads controller on the spots I think are right (all in the "iadmin"-folder), but it still doesn't do anything to my admin-panel.

Does anyone have an idea?

 

(I sertainly don't wanna do things in a rush, but it might eventually be better to install osCommerce again with the right & original version instead of my weird thing with strange folders??)

 

Sjoukje

[bkellum]

OK, I don't have a separate folder called anything like the things you said. The folders and the files inside the "catalog" folder of Downloads controller are all found in "iadmin", so it looks like what are the 2 separate folders "admin" and "catalog" at Downloads controller, are one folder on my server "Iadmin". (btw. I haven't changed this, I downloaded it this way by my server and the webshop does work... now I see why I didn't understand installing contributions).

 

I have put the files of downloads controller on the spots I think are right (all in the "iadmin"-folder), but it still doesn't do anything to my admin-panel.

Does anyone have an idea?

 

(I sertainly don't wanna do things in a rush, but it might eventually be better to install osCommerce again with the right & original version instead of my weird thing with strange folders??)

 

Sjoukje

OK...to begin with, the stock osC does not have any folders that start with the letter "i". Are you sure that you are using osCommerce? You may have some software that was based on osCommerce (a fork) such as CreLoaded or osCMax to name a few.

What I would do at this point is to download the original osC (060817 version) and then compare those files and folders with the files and folders that you have currently. If you are not using the stock osC to begin with then you are going to continue to have installation issues with other contributions as well, not just Download Controller.

[djmonkey1]

OK, I don't have a separate folder called anything like the things you said. The folders and the files inside the "catalog" folder of Downloads controller are all found in "iadmin", so it looks like what are the 2 separate folders "admin" and "catalog" at Downloads controller, are one folder on my server "Iadmin". (btw. I haven't changed this, I downloaded it this way by my server and the webshop does work... now I see why I didn't understand installing contributions).

 

I have put the files of downloads controller on the spots I think are right (all in the "iadmin"-folder), but it still doesn't do anything to my admin-panel.

Does anyone have an idea?

 

(I sertainly don't wanna do things in a rush, but it might eventually be better to install osCommerce again with the right & original version instead of my weird thing with strange folders??)

 

Sjoukje

 

In a stock osCommerce download package everything is stored inside the catalog folder, so in all likelihood the folder you call "iadmin" is, in fact, the catalog folder. The stock structure of osCommerce features the "admin" folder as a sub-folder of "catalog".

Edited June 4, 2007 by djmonkey1

[bkellum]

In a stock osCommerce download package everything is stored inside the catalog folder, so in all likelihood the folder you call "iadmin" is, in fact, the catalog folder. The stock structure of osCommerce features the "admin" folder as a sub-folder of "catalog".

I agree...this could very well by your scenario. So, if this is the case, then your iadmin folder, would look something like this:

 

iadmin (this would be your "catalog" folder)

-admin

--images

--includes

-includes

--boxes

--classes

--functions

--local

--languages

--modules

-images

-download

-pub